Current News & Events

Congratulations to Lena Faust!

Congratulations to Dr. Lena Faust, who successfully defended her PhD thesis! Lena has been awarded the Banting Fellowship, and will start her postdoctoral fellowship at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine next month. Lena is Madhu’s 25th graduate – bravo Madhu!

Welcome to Poshan Thapa and Luz Villa

A warm welcome to Poshan Thapa and Luz Villa! Poshan is from Nepal, holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, where his thesis was focused on the role and engagement of informal healthcare providers in India’s TB program. He joined us as a Postdoctoral Fellow and is working on the TBPPM and the Mi4 AMR projects. Luz is a Peruvian MD who previously worked as a research coordinator at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (including on our Xpert project among others) and as a clinical trial manager at FIND. She is starting an MSc in epidemiology. Welcome!

Nutrition and TB – new papers

You can read Anurag & Madhavi Bhargava’s landmark RATIONS trial papers in The LancetNutritional supplementation to prevent tuberculosis incidence in household contacts of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in India (RATIONS): a field-based, open-label, cluster-randomised, controlled trial” and The Lancet Global HealthNutritional support for adult patients with microbiologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis: outcomes in a programmatic cohort nested within the RATIONS trial in Jharkhand, India“. RATIONS is the first-ever trial to study the effect of nutritional supplementation with food baskets and micronutrients on TB incidence in 10,345 household contacts of 2,800 patients with lung TB undergoing treatment in rural India.

New MSc graduates

Congratulations to Lavanya Huria, Mikashmi Kohli and Angelina Sassi on graduating! It was a great opportunity to catch up with alumni and friends of the Pai Global TB Group, during the McGill Summer Institutes.

Welcome back to Angie Salomon

Congratulations to Angie, a Pai Global TB Group alumna, who graduated from Queen’s Medical school and won the Dr Jacalyn Duffin Award! She will start her family medicine residency at McGill in July – welcome back!

Congratulations to Alice Zwerling!

Congratulations to Alice – Madhu’s very first PhD student – who received tenure and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa!

Halftime for SDGs: Tuberculosis – report

This report presents a cost-benefit analysis of increased spending on TB using impacts and costs drawn from the Global Plan to End Tuberculosis, 2023‒2030. It was authored by Madhukar Pai and colleagues.

Team news

Congratulations to Lavanya Huria who will be starting a new job in a Vancouver-based agency shortly, and to Alexandra Zimmer who successfully defended her PhD protocol!

Jacob Bigio will be continuing with our group as a PhD candidate in the epidemiology program as of September 1st, Luz Villa, an MD working as a consultant for FIND based in Lima Peru, will join our team for an MSc in epidemiology for the fall term, and Poshan Thapa, who just finished his PhD at the University of New South Wales Australia, will join us as a postdoctoral fellow later this summer.

Congratulations to Lena Faust!

A heartfelt congratulations to Lena, who was one of 24 people selected for the prestigious CIHR Banting postdoctoral award!

Congratulations to Charity Omenka and Giorgia Sulis!

Heartfelt congratulations to Charity and Giorgia, who both accepted tenure track positions as Assistant Professors! Charity will be at the School of Public Health Sciences in the Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, and Giorgia will be at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa.

World TB Day – must reads

You can read a selection of articles, editorials, news and blog posts from the team for World TB Day:

Award for Giorgia Sulis

Congratulations to Giorgia for receiving the Outstanding Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award in McGill’s EBOH department!

Madhukar Pai appointed to 2 WHO committees

Congratulations to Madhu who has been appointed to the WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for TB in the South-East Asia Region (June 1), as well as to the WHO’s Advisory group on Tuberculosis Diagnostics and Laboratory Strengthening (July 19). Find out more here.

Annual TB research day – congratulations to the winners!

The 8th annual TB research day was held on World TB day. Congratulations to the 3 members of our team won prizes for their publications!

World TB day – must reads

Here are a few posts from our team for World TB day:

Epidemiology 101 for journalists

Madhu is organizing a short online course to introduce epidemiologic concepts to health/science journalists which will take place May 3 to May 7, 2021. The course is reserved for journalists, but you can find out more here.

Thank you and good luck to Tripti Pande

Congratulations to Tripti who will join Pact as an M&E Officer later this month! The entire team is thankful for all the work she’s done for the past few years for the TB REACH project. Congratulations too to Nathaly Aguilera Vasquez, who will be taking over as Lead Program Officer for this project.

Summer Institute 2021

The McGill Summer Institute is pleased to announce it will be back in 2021! In order to safely welcome as many participants as possible, the Summer Institute will be 100% online from May 31 to June 18, 2021. Registrations will open in January 2021 – save the date!

2020 Stop TB Community Award

Congratulations to the TB/COVID Working Group – ACTION, Global Coalition of TB Activists, Global TB Caucus, KANCO, McGill International TB Centre, RESULTS, Stop TB Partnership Affected Community Delegation, Stop TB Partnership Developing Country NGO Delegation, TBpeople, TBPPM.org, and We Are TB who won the 2020 Stop TB Community Award in the global category! And a special mention to Petra Heitkamp and Alexandra Zimmer who played an important role in this effort.

New postdoctoral fellow – Charity Omenka

Congratulations to Charity Omenka, who is starting as a postdoctoral fellowship in the group following the successful completion of her PhD. Charity will be managing the COVID Impact on Private Health Markets project, which will examine the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on TB services in private healthcare in 3 countries – India, Indonesia and Nigeria.

McGill International TB Centre leadership

As of October 15, Madhukar Pai will hand over the directorship of the McGill International TB Centre to Dick Menzies, who is also the director of the WHO Collaborating Centre in TB Research at McGill University. Madhu has led the TB Centre since July 2018, and the entire community is very grateful for his leadership over the past 2 years!

New grant on COVID-19 and private healthcare markets

We’re very happy to announce that Madhu has received a new grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on TB services in private healthcare in 3 countries – India, Indonesia and Nigeria. You can read McGill’s Faculty of Medicine article, and check out our website to find out more.

Congratulations and welcome

Congratulations to Anita Svadzian and Giorgia Sulis for winning a Faculty of Medicine studentship! And well done to Sophie Huddart on successfully submitting her PhD thesis! Our team would also like to welcome Angie Sassi, who will start her MSc in the Fall. Joining her will be Lavanya Huria and Mikashmi Kohli who will also start their MSc, as well as Alexandra Zimmer, who will begin her PhD. Find out more about their journey on our team’s page.

Fellowship awarded to Lena Faust

Congratulations to Lena who was awarded a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship doctoral award!

COVID-19 – Op-eds, interviews and more

To counter the media hype, misinformation and confusion around BCG vaccination for COVID-19 (currently unproven to have any protection), Madhu and his team have published a series of op-eds and media interviews:
Universal BCG vaccination and protection against COVID-19: critique of an ecological study (Nature Microbiology)
BCG against Coronavirus: Less hype and more evidence, please (Forbes)
Why a decades-old TB vaccine is getting attention in the fight against Covid-19 (Stat News)
Does the BCG vaccine work against coronavirus? We just don’t know (Wired)
No proof yet that BCG benefits against coronavirus, says expert (Q&A in The Hindu)
Gender & COVID-19: why diversity is critical to solving global health emergencies (WomenLift webinar)
An old vaccine vs. COVID-19 (The Take, by Al Jazeera)
A skeptic’s guide to ecologic studies during a pandemic (Forbes)
The coronavirus pandemic: impact of the lockdown on tuberculosis care (Podcast from the Centre for Policy Research)

Madhu also wrote about ‘Covidisation’ of academic research in Nature Microbiology. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has inspired a flood of research activities, special funding opportunities, and potential career paths. But this ‘Covidisation’ can come at the risk of undermining other areas of research and scholarship.

Other quotes and citations of interest:
Among the most vulnerable to coronavirus: The tens of millions who carry HIV and tuberculosis (Washington Post)
Is BCG effective against coronavirus? (India today)
Study that suggests BCG vaccine may protect against Covid-19 is flawed – TB experts (BizNews)
After the pandemic: How will COVID-19 transform global health and development? (Devex)
Can BCG vaccine protect against Covid-19? Here’s why the excitement needs to be tempered (ThePrint)
Considering BCG vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID-19 (The Lancet)

Summer Institute 2020 – launch

The 2020 edition of the Summer Institute is now accepting applications! It will features eight diverse courses held June 1-12, 2020. Its engaging course structure offers an avenue for attendees to convene, debate solutions, and gain an improved understanding of cutting-edge research methods. Most courses are three days to allow participants to take multiple offerings in combination, and have more opportunities to learn from our expert faculty. For more information and to register, consult the website.

Welcome to Nathaly Aguilera Vasquez and Jacob Bigio

We’re happy to welcome Nathaly as the new Program Officer for the TB REACH project. She’ll be joining Tripti, the Lead Program Officer, as part of the knowledge management team for this project. We’d also like to welcome Jacob, a new Research Associate joining our team. A trained physician, Jacob recently completed a Master of Science in Control of Infectious Diseases. Find out more about our new team members on our team’s website.

Launch of the TB•PPM Learning Network

We’re very excited that the TB•PPM Learning Network was launched on October 30th, 2019, at the PPM Working group symposium during the Union Conference in Hyderabad.

If you haven’t already, please sign up to join us in this vibrant online community united around the cause to End TB.

See also the WHO release on the launch of our community of practice.

Lena Faust awarded a fellowship

Congratulations to Lena who won the first Dr. Robert S. Remis Graduate Fellowship in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, in support of outstanding graduate students pursuing research in infectious diseases epidemiology!

Technical consultation on latent TB infection management

On September 16 and 17, the World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Programme and the WHO Collaborating Centre in TB Research at McGill University, Montreal, Canada held a two-day technical consultation on research on latent TB infection. Around 40 participants attended the meeting representing the TB research community, national TB programmes, civil society, technical and implementation partners, and donor agencies.

Congratulations and farewells to members of our team

Congratulations to Maddee Nash and Vaidehi Nafade for completing their MSc, and to Paulami Sen for completing her BSc! We’d also like to wish best of luck to Diane Singhroy and Angie Salomon who will both start medical school in the fall!

Thank you to Amrita Daftary!

Amrita will be taking a new position at York University, in Toronto, as of July 1. The Pai Global TB Group team would like to say a big thank you to Amrita for all her contributions in the past few years, and wish her the best of luck!

Summer Institute 2019

The 5th McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health was held June 10-21 this year. It welcomed 550 participants, including 150 faculty members, from 43 countries. Below are pictures from the Advanced TB Diagnostics course, and the new Quality of TB Care course. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Welcome to Pierrick Adam

Dr. Pierrick Adam is joining the Pai Global TB Group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Pierrick completed his medical degree with a specialised medical studies diploma in Public Health and Social Medicine in Paris (France) in 2018 – find out more about his background and experience on our team’s website. Welcome Pierrick!

Join our team: Postdoctoral fellowship in TB and private provider engagement

There is a new Postdoctoral Researcher position in the Pai Global TB Group. This fellowship will focus on research on Public-Private Mix and TB, private provider engagement, quality of TB care in the private health sector, and contribute to a learning network around private provider engagement and TB. To find out more, read the complete job posting. If you know someone who might be interested, please share!

TB/HIV Linkage: presentation from Angela Salomon

On March 26-29, ICAP and WHO hosted an invitation-only workshop entitled “HIV Differentiated Service Delivery: Opportunities and Challenges for TB Prevention and Care” in Lusaka, Zambia, in collaboration with the Zambia Ministry of Health. The meeting convened global experts and teams from seven of the CQUIN learning network member countries, including representatives from ministries of health, PEPFAR agencies, implementing partners and civil society. At this event, Angie a systematic review synthesizing evidence on interventions that impact linkages to diagnosis and treatment initiation for HIV and TB in LMICs. The title of her talk was “TB/HIV Linkage: What works, and how do we know?”. Congratulations!

Jody Boffa appointed as Honorary Research Fellow

Congratulations to Jody who has been appointed as Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Nursing and Public Health (Centre for Rural Health), College of Health Sciences, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa! Her appointment is for 3 years, until January 2022.

New GHDx community launched

A new Global Health Diagnostics community has been launched: www.ghdxonline.org. In this new community, professionals ranging from clinicians, nurses, laboratory professionals, policy-makers, researchers, implementers, advocates and health educators share questions, successes, and lessons learned to advance the field of global health diagnostics. Sign up today!

TEDx talk from Madhukar Pai

On November 24, Madhu gave his first TEDx talk at the McCord Museum (Montreal, Canada). The theme this year for all speakers and performers was “Climbing Ladders”, and you can watch the video online.

Amrita Daftary featured on the Canadian Women in Global Health List

Congratulations to Amrita, who has been featured on the Canadian Women in Global Health List! As one of the nominees, she will be included in a publicly available document intended to assist journal editors, conference organizers, funders, policy makers, and any other institutions in broadening and diversifying their networks to include Canadian women leaders in global health. Find out more on the Canadian Society for International Health website.

Inauguration of the Center for Nutrition Studies

On October 25th, the Center for Nutrition Studies was officially inaugurated at Yenepoya Medical College in Mangalore, India. The Center is led by Dr. Anurag Bhargava, an alumni of the Pai Global TB Group. The Center’s creation was supported by the McGill International TB Centre, and its N-TB app launched earlier this year was created with the help of Tripti Pande from the Pai TB Group. A great international effort!

Welcome to Alexandra Gatto

We’d like to officially welcome Alexandra Gatto to the Pai TB Group’s extended family! Alexandra will manage the McGill International TB Centre under the leadership of Madhu, and also handle Amrita’s research portfolio. Welcome!

Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF testing for pediatric TB – paper from Sophie Huddart

Sophie contributed to the paper “Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF testing on various specimen types for presumptive infant TB cases for early and appropriate treatment initiation“, published in PLoS One. As she puts it: “This is a deeper dive into the infant TB cases diagnosed with Xpert. Almost all were diagnosed using non-sputum samples and 5% were rif resistant. We also observed an 11% mortality in TB cases. This is certainly the largest cohort of infant TB I’ve come across and it paints a scary picture!”

Lancet Global Health: report of the HQSS Commission

The report of the HQSS Commission was published today in the Lancet GH. TB is prominently used throughout the report and you can see that by searching for tuberculosis in the PDF. Some of our team’s work is also cited. For this, we can thank Danielle and Tripti, who worked hard with the HQSS team on the TB aspects. Look for their names in the acknowledgements section! Check out also Madhu’s blog post on the subject in Nature Microbiology.

Welcome to Lena Faust

Lena is joining the Pai TB Group to do a PhD, with Madhu serving as her supervisor. Welcome Lena!

NIH award for Amrita Daftary

Congratulations to Amrita who is Co-Investigator on a new NIH R21 award: Evaluating a multimodal behavioral intervention to reduce stigma in HIV/drug resistant TB in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (PI: O’Donnell MR, Columbia University)!

Productive summer: new papers from the team

Here are 5 new papers from the team published this summer:

Congratulations to everyone!

McGill International TB Centre – New executive team

After 5 years, Marcel Behr is stepping down as Director of the McGill International TB Centre, making way for a new team to lead the Centre. Madhukar Pai will step in as Director, and the roles of Associate Directors will be taken on by Amrita Daftary (Global/Population Health), Faiz Ahmad Khan (Clinical Research) and Maziar Divangahi (Fundamental Research). A big thank you to Marcel and congratulations to the new leadership team! You can also read McGill’s story on this.

Recent talk from Amrita Daftary

On June 26, Amrita delivered a talk entitled “A qualitative approach to assessing the drivers of HIV acquisition in Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Canada” as part of the CERIUM Course / Workshop “Migration et santé publique à l’ère de la mondialisation : quelles approches et données pour analyser les enjeux actuels? / Immigration and Public Health in the Era of Globalization: What Approaches and Data Analyses Methods should be used?”.

SA TB Conference – 3 talks from Jody Boffa

On June 14, 2018, Jody gave 3 talks at the 5th SA TB Conference 2018: “Is prevention better than cure? Perceptions of isoniazid preventive therapy in KwaZulu-Natal”, “The role of agency in the implementation of isoniazid preventive therapy: Lessons from oMakoti in uMgungundlovu District, KZN” and “The effectiveness of untargeted 6-month isoniazid preventive therapy to reduce tuberculosis incidence among people living with HIV with and without antriretroviral therapy in KwaZulu-Natal”. Find out more in the conference’s program.

TB Centre day 2018 – Emily MacLean wins 2 prizes

The 6th Annual TB Centre Research Day on June 1, 2018 was a great success, and included a keynote address by President Natan Obed of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami in front of more than 150 attendees. Our very own Emily was rewarded with 2 prizes. She won 1st prize for a CORE, and the ALFA Travel Award for being the overall winner of the afternoon. Congrats!

Welcome to Diane Singhroy and Paulami Sen

We’d like to officially welcome Diane and Paulami to our group! Diane completed her PhD in Virology and Immunology at McGill University in 2016, and was a Scientific and Technical Advisor for Knowledge Ecology International. She’s joining the group as a Research Associate. Paulami is completing her Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology & Immunology at McGill University, and is joining us for the summer as a Junior Assistant. Welcome!

Launch of the new teachepi website

Our team’s new and improved teachepi website has been officially launched! The teachepi website was designed to bring together useful resources for learning and teaching epidemiology: lectures, case studies, calculation tools, and much more. Visit it today!

IDIGH Travel Awards competition

The IDIGH Program is pleased to announce the 2018 Trainee Travel Awards competition to support students and post-doctoral fellows who wish to present their research findings at national and international conferences. To apply, complete the online application before June 30.

Welcome to Angie Salomon

We’d like to officially welcome Angie to our group! She recently completed her MPH in epidemiology at the University of Toronto, and has also interned at Grand Challenges Canada. You can see her profile on the team’s page.

Congratulations to our latest award/fellowship recipients

Congratulations to Amrita Daftary who has been awarded an FRQS Junior 1 salary award, Emily MacLean who was awarded an FRQS doctoral fellowship, and Maddee Nash who has been awarded a CIHR Master’s fellowship and an FRQS masters fellowship!

CAHR 2018: presentation from Amrita Daftary

At the latest edition of the Canadian AIDS Conference (CAHR 2018), Amrita gave a talk entitled “Sexual Encounters Among Afro-Caribbean Immigrants Post Arrival in Canada: a Reconstructed Vulnerability to HIV?”. The conference booklet can be accessed here.

McGill International TB Centre/Global Health travel awards – Spring competition

The McGill International TB Centre/Global Health Travel Awards are intended to support trainees (graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) in the fields of tuberculosis and other mycobacterial research. These awards up to $1,500 each are for conference travel to national and international scientific meetings to present the trainee’s own research. Apply online; the deadline is April 6th.

Welcome to Mikashmi Kohli

Dr. Mikashmi Kohli joined the Pai Global TB Group February 1st, as a postdoctoral fellow. You can find out more about her background on our team page. Welcome Mikashmi!

Honors for Madhukar Pai from UC Berkeley

Congratulations to Madhu for being selected by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health to be honored as one of their 75 most influential public health alumni over their entire 75 year history! The Pai Global TB Group team is extremely proud, and honored, to be working with him!

Launch of Let’s Talk TB, 3rd edition

This 3rd edition of the free Let’s Talk TB booklet has grown to include 18 chapters, written by 20 co-authors, and has come a long way since 2014, when the first edition was released with just 5 chapters. The 3rd edition includes new chapters on MDR-TB, adverse effects of TB drugs, adherence monitoring strategies, and nutritional support. Download it free on the website.

 

You can also read Madhu’s blog post on the subject, in Nature Microbiology.

New grant for Amrita Daftary

Congratulations to Amrita and her co-investigators, Faiz Ahmad Khan and Nathalie Boulanger, who were awarded a Steinberg Fund for Interdisciplinary Global Health Research for their project “A Collaborative Partnership to Develop Smoking Cessation Interventions in Nunavik”!

Inaugural CORE seminar: Presentation from Amrita Daftary

At the inaugural CORE seminar, Amrita showcased an ambitious initiative to engage pharmacists in India into pathways of tuberculosis diagnosis and management. The challenges of such a critical implementation science study cannot be underestimated and is testimony to the tenacity and initiative of CORE investigators like Dr Daftary and Dr M Pai. If you missed it, you can watch it on YouTube.

Prof. Madhukar Pai elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

On September 14th, Madhu was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in an event that took place in Ottawa. Fellows of the Academy are elected on the basis of their demonstrated leadership, creativity, distinctive competencies and commitment to advance academic health sciences. Congratulations!

McGill TB Centre Travel Awards – Deadline October 4

Established in 2015 and co-sponsored by McGill Global Health Programs, there be will a total of ​6 travel awards of up to $1,500 each per year. These awards are specifically for trainees (students and postdoctoral fellows) in the fields of Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial research, and will be used for traveling (e.g. registration and travel expenses) to present their own research at national and international scientific meetings and/or conferences. The current competition is now open (apply here), and the deadline is October 4th.

Apply today: Postdoctoral fellowship in Global Health Diagnostics

Applications are invited from recent PhD or MD graduates for a one year, full-time fellowship in the Pai Global TB Research Group, starting in Fall 2017. Interested applicants should submit an application via email, consisting of a cover letter (including a statement of research interests and prior experience in diagnostics), Curriculum Vitae, contact information of 2 relevant referees, along with 3 sample diagnostics publications to madhukar.pai@mcgill.ca. To see the full description of the postdoctoral fellowship, click here.

Welcome back to Tripti Pande

We’re very pleased to welcome back Tripti in our group! She’ll be joining as a Project Manager September 5th. To find out more about her background, check out our team page.

Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative

Under the leadership of Dr. Madhukar Pai, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has been awarded a 5-year grant to serve as a knowledge management partner to the Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative. The initiative, funded in part by Global Affairs Canada, provides one-year grants to partners throughout the world to increase the number of people diagnosed and treated for TB. Successful projects are considered for scale up by other donor agencies and/or national governments. The RI-MUHC’s role for Waves 5-9 is to provide technical assistance to TB REACH projects in two areas: operational research and knowledge dissemination.

In May 2017, members from Dr. Pai’s team travelled to Bangkok, Thailand for an initial gathering of TB REACH Wave 5 grantees from over 20 countries, and the Stop TB Partnership team. Dr. Pai’s team members held three grantee capacity building workshops, 1) Data Collection and Management, 2) Qualitative Research Methods, 3) Health Economics, and hosted an interactive lecture on knowledge dissemination for advocacy. They also held fruitful discussions with members of 23 grantee organizations that had requested technical assistance. Following this successful kick-off meeting, Dr. Pai’s team is enthusiastic to continue to collaborate with the innovative TB REACH projects for this year and the four waves ahead!

4 new publications from the team

Read Maddee’s new publication in The Lancet Global Health “Use of the GeneXpert tuberculosis system for HIV viral load testing in India“, as well as Madhu’s three new papers “Implementation of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for tuberculosis in Mongolia: a qualitative exploration of barriers and enablers” in PeerJ, “Computer-aided reading of tuberculosis chest radiography: moving the research agenda forward to inform policy” in The European Respiratory Journal, and “Diagnosing at Point of Care in South India” in Science & Technology Studies.

Nature Microbiology Post

The G20 leaders’ declaration, published today, carries an important section on AMR, and tuberculosis is identified as a priority for R&D. Read more in Madhu’s post.

Alumni from the Pai Global TB Group win prizes

Samuel Schumacher (PhD graduate) and Andy McDowell (postdoctoral fellow), both alumni from the group, won prizes for best papers at this year’s McGill TB Centre Trainee Day. Samuel was awarded the Jonathan Meakins Prize for best paper in Clinical Research by a graduate student for “Diagnostic Test Accuracy in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Bayesian Latent Class Analysis“. Andy was awarded the Jonathan Meakins Prize for best paper in Clinical Research by a postdoctoral fellow for “Treatment as diagnosis and diagnosis as treatment: empirical management of presumptive tuberculosis in India“. This is in addition to Sophie and Emily, who both won travel awards.

World TB Day: Interviews and Citations

The Pai TB Research Group has been very active for the 2017 World TB Day. Below are some of the expert interviews given by Madhukar Pai, along with media citations:

3 New Papers from the Team

The team has 3 new papers in the recent “Special Issue: Commemorating World Tuberculosis Day 2017” of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

New Students Joining our Team in the Fall of 2017

Congratulations to Anita Svadzian and Giorgia Sulis who will start their PhD in Epidemiology at McGill University in the Fall of 2017, with Prof. Madhukar Pai as their supervisor. Anita completed her MPH at Boston University earlier this year, and is currently a Project Manager in the Pai TB Research Group for the UNOPS – Stop TB Partnership – TB REACH funded project “Knowledge Management Support for TB REACH 2016-2020/21”. Giorgia is currently finishing her fellowship in Infectious and Diseases at the University of Brescia, Italy.

IDIGH Research Day Deadline – Extended

The deadline to submit abstracts for the 2017 IDIGH Research Day has been extended to March 10th 2017.

To submit an abstract: https://goo.gl/forms/7X9illiJVYARQew13

To register for the event: https://goo.gl/forms/sDRYYrkfSayDdceH3